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When surgeon, lecturer and author Sharad Paul first approached Auckland's prestigious Rialto Centre to rent space for a café-bookshop, the managers were far from convinced. Renting to someone with no retail or catering experience seemed unduly risky. But after a year of persistence and persuasion, Paul's vision finally won them over, and the result is Baci Lounge (a name derived from "books, art, coffee inc."), www.baci.co.nz. The fashionably designed space is now a hub for Auckland's literati - a place to shop for unusual reading and to enjoy good wine, food and coffee (the latter given...
...smartest people you'll ever meet are the guys who used to operate the M. Coy bookshop on Pine Street in Seattle. Business pressures recently forced them to shutter their shop, but for 20 years, they sold their books, and from the moment you walked into their store, they had you figured out. They noticed where your gaze would go; they noticed where you paused. They noticed what books you picked up and how long you lingered over them. They recalled earlier customers who had bought the same titles and remembered other books those shoppers bought. They flashed through their...
...Ginsberg and his poem first vaulted to national attention two months ago when San Francisco police authorities arrested Lawrence Ferlinghetti, sometime painter and poet, and bookshop proprietor on the North Beach. Ferlinghetti, who had published Ginsberg’s poem in his Pocket Poet series, was charged with dissemination of “obscene and indecent writings” and brought to trial under California’s newly valid Obscenity...
...supporting Barack Obama, perhaps ‘preferring’ Dennis Kucinich. Students themselves aren’t to blame for this zeallessness, though, but the confluence of events utterly beyond our control.Not least of which is one merely logistical in nature. Revolution Books, once a remarkable communist bookshop, has fallen from grace. It limps along aside the capitalist sneer of its neighbor, the overpriced crêperie, open only a few hours a week. How are we ‘careerists’ supposed to get our class struggle going if we can only pick up pamphlets from...
...landmark Grolier Poetry Bookshop on Plympton, a former hangout for poets like E. E. Cummings ’15, T. S. Eliot ’10 and Allen Ginsberg and one of only two for-profit poetry-only stores in the country, would have to spend money changing all of their mailing labels and packaging, and it may at first lose customers who have trouble finding the street with a different name. It could be enough to put the struggling bookstore, which was sold in 2006 after losing money for two years, out of business...